Angela Danno has been an active resident at Paul’s Run since she moved in to Liberty’sNortheast Philadelphia retirement community 21 months ago. She exercises daily and knows first-hand the importance of physical fitness when it comes to aging. “I have little aches and pains…some pinched nerves,” she explained. That’s why she participated in Senior Fitness Day at Paul’s Run for the second year in a row.

“It’s been like a club to me now,” Fran says. “I have made nice friends here.”

Where did the last 20 years go? That’s the biggest question Fran Conley pondered when we asked her to talk about being one of the first members of The Becoming Center in 1994.

“I was here when the doors opened,” she recalls.

Two decades ago, Fran’s very–health conscious daughter was driving by Artman, Liberty’s senior community in Ambler, she saw the signs for the newly created Becoming Center and urged her mother to join. Fran lived only two blocks away and still does.

The Liberty Lutheran Family of Services is blessed to provide vital resources to thousands of people facing life-changing situations in Pennsylvania. Each person is courageous in their own way. Ellen Stern, a resident at Artman, is an exceptional example.

Ellen and her husband Harold moved to Artman in January 2014 after a series of health problems. They realized the split-level Willow Grove home that they shared for more than 40 years wasn’t ideal for the walking and balance issues that come with age. But don’t let her age and petite frame fool you. At 87, Ellen has as much courage and spitfire as ever.

Pennsylvania fared well this summer with no hurricane or tropical storm activity, which makes last winter’s harsh and devastating weather easy to forget. But the seasons are changing again, which provides new opportunities for damaging weather, not to mention man-made disaster situations. That’s why now is the time to prepare yourself, your family and your congregation.

Picture this: more than 200 senior citizens WALKING from Honolulu to Philadelphia! Okay… maybe that’s not humanly possible, but that was idea behind the Amazing Race at three of Liberty Lutheran’s senior communities.

Residents at Paul’s Run, Artman and the Village at Penn State kicked off the Amazing Race walking challenge in August, featuring four weeks of activities to inspire residents to get moving. Each week featured a different virtual destination. Residents “walked” from Honolulu to Dallas, then to New Orleans, and back to Philadelphia.

The Becoming Centeris celebrating a very special milestone this fall – 20 years of service! They’re capping off the momentous occasion with a big event.

Since 1994, the Becoming Center has offered personalized, comprehensive, preventive and restorative holistic wellness for active adults seeking to improve their fitness and overall wellbeing. The Becoming Center is a service of Liberty Lutheran, located on the campus of Artman in Ambler, Montgomery County. The Becoming Center’s staff has been instrumental in helping members achieve their health and wellness goals, as well as inspiring individuals to strengthen their body, mind and spirit.

Artman is transforming from a traditional institutional long-term care facility to a personalized home for each resident.

Big changes are on the horizon for Artman, Liberty’s senior living community in Ambler, Montgomery County. We are transforming the way we care for our residents in many ways.

You may have noticed, for the past few years major renovations have been taking place at The Hearth at Drexel, our senior community in Bala Cynwyd, and at the Halle Health Center at Paul’s Run in Northeast Philadelphia, to make way for our new model of care at our senior communities: “person-center” care. We call this The Liberty Way.